Marketing Report

Still waiting to hear back from the reader for Anabasis, and it's been 10 days. They said they'd get it back to me after 7, so I'm getting concerned. Maybe they're showing it to someone who might be interested. Maybe they're overworked and forgot. It could be either, or anything in between. I am not a patient man.

Also, Shogun's been getting some attention The reader said it was "wonderfully violent" and that Hollywood readers would love it. That it read well, and that the plot and characters were well done. So that's a thing. And at midnight an "industry professional" downloaded it. I have high hopes for it, as I think it's a worthy script, and has potential. Not the best ever, but with the right director, actors, and music, I think it has the potential to give a wonderful gift to our children. A gift of a Ferrari. I don't pretend to be the best, but I put months into that one, and the plot was carefully crafted.

Either way, at this point, it seems like both of my good ones MIGHT be getting attention. I have just enough information to hope for the best.

Captain's Log. Stardate: no clue.

They're up on the Black List. Already got the reads on the two I ordered going. No response yet. Fingers crossed and everything. They're my best two, in my opinion Turncloak is pretty good, and I set it up for a trilogy, so if it's a hit, it'll hits solid money. I didn't try to make it seem like one. It's a solid standalone, if it's not too big. Personally, I just feel like act 2 could use...different events. I can't think of them, but I definitely feel like a couple of the sequences could be diced up and split among the others. That would leave openings for other sequences. Maybe knowing there'll be wiggle room for alterations is a positive thing. I could do it. Make it better.

Also, watching Exodus. I like the ideas, not the execution. Christian Bale is good as Moses. Unfortunately, he's the only character. I mean, sure he has a wife and son, for a total of 3 scenes, and he has a mother for like, two half-scenes. But Ramses isn't a character so much as a plot device. Everything's cool until he decides to chop off some random woman's arm. "You're my buddy's mom? IMMA LOP OFF YER HAND, RAWR!" The beginning of this movie is fucking confusing.

But more grievous is Ramses' mother, who exists for like two scenes. And Aaron and no-pain-guy and old-guy, who all kind of act as random Hebrews. Just poor characterization. The events were epic as hell. They really brought the wrath of CGI god down on everyone. But the viceroy was just a corrupt guy who wasn't fond of Hebrews. Probably because he hated his job, and his job was to make Hebrews do things. I mean, not a good person, but not far enough over to through him over the moral event horizon. Ramses just seems to do whatever the story needs him to do, with not a lot brought to the character, other than their relatedness, and a kid who dies. They made him sympathetic, which I liked. They don't always need to be monsters, but there was no definitive "bad" guy in this story. Maybe God. Not a good moral for a religious flick.

In any case, I keep telling myself that this movie sold. And I really swung for the fences on these. I won't even show the first five scripts I wrote. They're not good enough to be shown. Even though the coverage I got for Space Zombies said it was going to be good with more work, I'm not terribly into it. Maybe later, if I get a career going.